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Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force..

Sea-gait :: Sea-gait (n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea..

Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom..

Plim :: Plim (v. i.) To swell, as grain or wood with water..

Swell :: Swell (n.) Gradual increase.

Intumescence :: Intumescence (n.) The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat..

Boss :: Boss (n.) Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood..

Bulk :: Bulk (v. i.) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell..

Heave :: Heave (n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like..

Boswellian :: Boswellian (a.) Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson..

Huff :: Huff (v. i.) To enlarge; to swell up; as, bread huffs..

Strove :: Strout (v. t.) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.

Ballooned :: Ballooned (a.) Swelled out like a balloon.

Thoroughpin :: Thoroughpin (n.) A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through..

Beat :: Beat (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8..

Swell :: Swelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swel.

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell..

Tumefy :: Tumefy (v. i.) To rise in a tumor; to swell.

Ampullaceous :: Ampullaceous (a.) Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling.

Turgesce :: Turgesce (v. i.) To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.

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